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Dogs are easy to train AP - compared to people :lol: She might be perfectly happy with her hooligan dogs - we all have different standards - and secretly resent being given advice she has no intention of taking. If she is asking for advice, it's an attention-getter - tell her to find a dog behaviour...

Those are great ambitions and no reason why you shouldn't become a really good dog trainer/behaviourist even if you might not be able to change the mindset of the dog-haters. :D What I think would help - if you really hate your job, find one that pays well but you don't hate, and part-time if you ca...

Sounds very like an infection to me (you ever had cystitis?).

Best way to get a sample from a ***** is to have something like a small frying pan, walk her because they like to wee on walks, and shove the container under when she squats.

Yes you will look silly so just pretend it isn't happening.

Heart murmurs in puppies sometimes resolve themselves, and a grade 1 is no big deal. However I think you would do well to go back to his breeder and discuss, because I don't know anything about heart murmurs in flatcoats - they may be common in which case unlikely to resolve, or they may be rare, bu...

Not enough information :D Do you mean she has suddenly started weeing in the house? Or that she waits by the door and says nothing? What does she usually do? Sudden onset of weeing in the house means either an infection or insecurity. Off to the vet with a wee sample, and get her tested if so. If it...

Oh yes, always take out pits and stones.

Smiley, none of us here ridicules people. What we do is explain why dogs act the way they do, what we can reasonably expect to change and what is not reasonable and why. We provide this advice in our own time and for no recompense, because we try to help dogs and owners understand each other better....

Shut the door to the room the couch is in. You really are expecting far too much of this dog. He's a dog, not a human, and you'll all have a much happier time together for understanding that. I'm sorry if this is not what you want to hear, but think on it - you don't really have any problems with hi...

No grapes or raisins, otherwise everything's okay to the best of my knowledge.

Banana dogs live here too

Good advice there, and please also understand that you have a terrier, and the job that terriers were created for makes them highly reactive to fast movement and noise. What I would do is a little different from what Ocelot has suggested - I'd stop any terrier/noisy fast-moving children interface by...

Forgot to add - do not give corn on the cob. Maize grains are okay but not the cob itself.

You can give anything except the onion family. Go easy on root veg as they are full of sugar - a little is okay but not lots.
Sprouts are fine but be careful if feeding them whole in case doggie chokes (mine love sprouts as well).

Supervise time together but do not interfere if older dog tells younger dog off with noise and air-snaps. Pup may scream blue murder but that's what they do. If older dog grabs pup and shakes her, or snaps with intent to make contact do not correct older dog but separate them for 10 minutes then try...

She should lose them all. Very occasionally baby teeth, usually canine teeth, are a bit slow to fall out and the adult tooth grows over the top. It usually sorts itself out but if not a quick tweak from a vet solves the problem. The big back teeth you see are probably the pwrmanent ones. Still point...

Yes they lose their milk-teeth just like we do (and all other mammals) but it seems to give them less grief than it does us

Give lots of safe things to chew on because they really reall need to chew at this time.